Our website presents a diverse selection of new writing from China – non-fiction and social commentary from leading intellectuals and independent bloggers – formatted for non-Mandarin natives, with bilingual titles, tags, and author biographies. Our selection reflects the diversity of Chinese writing today, and does not follow any political or ideological agenda.

This website is also a collaborative translation platform, where you can practice your translation skills on authentic material and receive feedback on your translation from other, more advanced users.

All translations are published on this website, with a colour code indicating their degree of completion. This way, you can access authentic voices from China even if you can’t read Chinese – or if you’re a translator, you can help others understand more about China while practicing your language skills, and build an online portfolio for yourself.

The Marco Polo Project incorporated as a not-for-profit public company limited by guarantee in May 2011, recognised as a charity by the Australia Charity and Non-Profit Commission, and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Our website provides a diverse selection of new online writing from China. Our goal is to promote cultural exchange and give Western readers a direct access to voices from China. We make all efforts to get authorisation from authors before re-publishing, and all our texts have a link to their original source.
If you are a copyright owner, and you believe that any material on our website infringes your copyright, please accept our apologies, contact us at info at marcopoloproject.org to remove the texts in question.
我们所有的文本有一个链接到原始来源， 并承认原作者。 我们的目标是促进文化交流并给西方读者直接访问来自中国的声音。 如果您是版权拥有者，您认为在我们的网站的任何材料侵犯了您的版权，请与我们联系信息在marcopoloproject.org。我们会从我们的网站删除文本。

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Click here to read our translations into French and Spanish. For other languages, please contact info@marcopoloproject.org

A note on our translations

All translations on this website are generated by users on a volunteer basis. Translation is a difficult art, and various interpretations of a passage are sometimes possible. The version you're reading may contain inaccuracies - or the meaning intended by its original author may not exactly correspond to your interpretation. It is your responsibility to take this potential margin of error into account whenever quoting from us or forming a judgement based on one of our texts.

All our texts have a link to their source, and acknowledge original authors. Our goal is to promote cultural exchange and give Western readers a direct access to voices from China. If you are a copyright owner, and you believe that any material on our website infringes your copyright, please contact us at info at marcopoloproject.org and we will promptly remove the material in question.